major league baseball hates its fans
major league baseball is considering terminating the extra-innings package. it would give the deal to directv instead. i read about it on baseball prospectus, in an article by joe sheehan.

joe sheehan is a good writer. but that does not make him right. he says it's a good move. alienating your fans is not a good move.

the profit would be 30 million dollars. 30 million dollars is one-and-a-half yankees. call it two. major league baseball would alienate its most dedicated fans for the price of two yankees.

it doesn't make sense. major league baseball has had a pattern of mistreating its fans. it's time to break that pattern. sooner or later the fans stop coming.
- posted by julien @
9:55 AM